Clone
Clone noun - Something that is made to look exactly like something else.
Usage example: the car is a clone under a different brand name—it's even manufactured in the same plant as its cousin
Imitation is a synonym for clone in mock-up topic. In some cases you can use "Imitation" instead a noun "Clone".
Imitation
Imitation noun - Something that is made to look exactly like something else.
Usage example: challenged me to tell the real roses from the silk imitations
Clone is a synonym for imitation in simulation topic. You can use "Clone" instead a noun "Imitation", if it concerns topics such as mock-up.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Syaoran is initially seen as an shallow imitation of his clone and Kurogane has to learn that he's a separate person from the boy he first knew.
Source: Inverted Trope -
When the colony finds out that she is a clone, some of the Jerk Ass characters immediately start calling her "it", claiming that her "intelligence" is merely an imitation programmed into her.
Source: Designer Babies - Sometimes the evil double is a clone and may brood about how he's not a "real" person, just a hollow imitation of the original.
Source: Evil Doppelganger
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